prin1-char error

[David Kastrup]

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(prin1-char ?A) returns "?\\S-a", but ?\S-a evaluates to 33554529.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.7)
 of 2004-08-20 on lola.goethe.zz
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 
-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss' '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: CVS

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum